Two obvious trial balloons floated in recent days by Washington-based columnists announcing -- sort of -- that the Obama Administration intends to de-couple the United States from Israel and adopt a more independent attitude towards the Middle East More

Hagel has argued that any government (even an openly genocidal jihadist regime) possessing nuclear weapons would naturally respond to their new responsibility with common sense, prudence, and sanity. More

The leaders of the State of Israel, according to NCIS, are into breeding decoy Palestinians rather than engaging in negotiation, and into motivating their own children to become ruthless killing machines dedicated to thwarting any peace efforts More

During her Benghazi testimony last week, all at once, before the whole world, one of the highest ranking progressive authoritarians on the planet spilled the beans -- all of them -- about the left's modus operandi. More

When James Madison shaped and defended throughout 1787 the document which became our Constitution, he did not follow Montesquieu's most important admonitions, but rather presumed to "correct Montesquieu" in three cardinal ways. More

This week, the administration that rode to a second term decrying a fictitious war on women by the opposition, opened real fronts on the war on women, perpetuating feminism's worst inconsistencies More

Why in the world, when our country is trillionsof dollars in debt, would we want to burden ourselves with increased debt in order to promote an educational philosophy that is at best controversial and at worst downright harmful? More

Science is science because of experiments. If you can't define a repeatable experiment that can either prove or falsify a theory all you have is a theory; and theories are just smart men thinking. More

Beginning from an inhuman premise -- namely that no individual has a right to self-preservation, they follow a train of reasoning that leads to a conclusion that is entirely logical, if you accept their initial premise. More

Why would politicians attempt to take away arms and surround themselves with bodyguards? To protect themselves against the crazy people, or against the sane people, who hope to keep their liberty and their lives? More

As of the end of 2012, the United States has experienced the worst five year period -- which includes, as the final four years, Obama's first full term -- since 1928-1932 and the start of the Great Depression. More

Scientific progress supports the notion that a fetus within a womb represents a life. Therefore, the argument that the decision to end that life is simply matter of "choice" is ever more rejected by the public. More

The moral champions of our educational system represent inculcation of bubble head standards that bear little or no resemblance to reality and common sense, inculcation that is comparable to brainwashing. More

Conservatives believe that we can kill our neighbors only when our neighbors are trying to kill us, while liberals believe that they can kill their neighbors whenever those neighbors become a burden to them. More

The Marxist notion of human progress is a spiral that would return humanity to stateless, moneyless, classless, and selfless collectivism. For that purpose they must, so to speak, put the genie of individualism back into the bottle. More

If you want to view the concrete reality of today's political and media scene more clearly, just look at the case of a little radio show on a little radio station in a little town in the heart of Minnesota. More

In a society shaped by the government's mind games of manipulative illusions, a dissenter sticks out like a sore thumb. Once the resistance has been demonized, its members will be quickly identified and denounced by the compliant citizenry More

Sandy Hook is particularly disturbing because the truth is, or at least should have been, so accessible. This tragedy should never have spawned anything like a conspiracy theory, but it obviously has More

The lifeblood of a Democracy is civil discourse. It is painfully obvious that the left, the mainstream media, and the Democratic Party have no interest in any other point of view or even the future of the country. More

In free societies, pornography largely remains an often frowned upon matter of private adult autonomy while the global homosexual movement is increasingly gaining acceptance of its agenda as a civil rights issue demanding public approval. More

Theologians and philosophers have derived an enlightened morality positing the primacy of human worth. It is through this that the West's view of man's place in the cosmos has transcended that of other civilizations. More

The Arab countries lag behind, not only Israel, but other regions in the world regarding economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health, and political empowerment of women. More

The difference between Reagan and Obama is that instead of doing what the Gipper did, which was to impart a measure of his own patriotic optimism to the country, Obama openly exposes his resentment. More

New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has just shown why supporters of the Bill of Rights must use legal, nonviolent, and socially acceptable methods to destroy gun grabber organizations like the Million Mom March in 2000 and break political careers.
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Farm Bureau is the insurance company that is the equivalent of AARP for farmers. It believes that it is the gatekeeper of all legislation affecting farmers. Protecting freedom and property rights evidently take a back seat.
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The philosophy of Barack Obama is a version of altruism called "egalitarianism." It is a philosophy not of political equality but a claim to equality in reality. It is a belief that we need to equalize the unfairness in nature. More

President Obama wants his legacy to be "winding down" America's wars in and bringing American troops home. He is doing that, but at the same time leavinbg unresolved conflicts that will enable al Qaeda to thrive and grow. More

Today, we find religious freedom in grave jeopardy. Obviously, the HHS Mandate that forces Christians to subsidize abortion-producing drugs is the clearest example. But there is an avalanche of others. More

What does one do when confronted with the mandatory task of negotiating a deal with someone who is demonstrably dishonest, driven solely by ego and only interested in embarrassing you? You don't negotiate with them. More

Republicans may be "blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh" of Lincoln's party, but that alone does not provide "the electric cord" to the man. Party and place mean nothing compared to policy and principle.
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Facts -- they just don't matter like they used to. Neither does the Constitution, if you listen to Joe Biden, Governor Cuomo, and other politicians grabbing the microphones to take advantage of the low information voters' short attention span.
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In this tale of two men, one finds in microcosm the dilemma we face in a world of pain and transgression. In a sense more real than we at times can fathom, we are both Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert. More

Criminologist Gary Kleck estimates that 2.5 million Americans each year use guns for self-defense and that 400,000 of them say they would have been killed if they hadn't been armed. That's 400,000 a year. More

Do we already have gun laws on the books? Of course. We just need a few more, and as soon as we further restrict the millions of law-abiding citizens who have not committed crimes, these crimes will stop. More

The rule of law and the scientific method were developed precisely to protect human beings from the hazards of acting on raw emotion and ignorance. Democratic politicians and left-wing activists, on the other hand, thrive on these human vulnerabilities. More

Hidden taxes/costs are increasing and quite meaningful to most American budgets today. These costs are not just largely hidden but are regressive in nature and have a greater impact on low wage earners and the elderly. More

Our side's goal in repelling the latest Democrat war on guns must be not to defend our constitutional rights, but rather to counterattack decisively. This is something the American people need to take very seriously. More

Using textbooks as propaganda is nothing new. Hitler filled the minds of German youth with vile depictions of Jews in textbooks. It continues today with Palestinian militants and their Western allies. More

Those who continue to live on the Russian Roulette principle with regard to progressives and their recent proposals -- "oh come on, surely they don't mean it literally" -- can take heart: your odds of survival are getting better More

With the Benghazi official account breaking down like cheap cement with too much sand in the mix, we now know with near certainty that our very own Department of State has been recruiting and arming Al-Qaeda. S who are TSA and DHS looking for? More

Should conservatives and persons of faith simply withdraw from the public square, live our lives, and quietly await the inevitable collapse of what the indispensible Walter Russell Mead calls Blue State America? In fact, we could do nothing worse. More

What makes Lincoln such a sacred centerpiece of American memory is also what makes him such a dreadful protagonist in film. Lincoln might have been kinder to its eponymous hero had it libeled him; instead, it made him boring. More

But if we redefine marriage for one group, there's no logical reason to deny other nonconformist advocates their right to do so, especially if they successfully argue their version of marriage on utilitarian grounds. More

The Middle East that is descending in an inchoate free fall back down onto the familiar ground of religious fundamentalism, primitive tribal society, and internecine warfare which that region of the world is so accustomed to. More

I have the uneasy feeling that taxpayers -- more accurately, their descendants -- will be paying for my rollercoaster, and no one in New Jersey or in the media anywhere seems remotely troubled by it. More

For four years, Barack Obama has worked diligently to disparage success. He has cultivated class envy using the false premise that the wealthy destroyed the nation and are deserving of monetary castigation. More

A century and a half ago, something happened that affects us today. So why was the abolition of slavery in the United States (if that isn't a big deal, what is?) worthy of almost no attention when it marked its sesquicentennial on January first, 2013? More

The side that controls the language of an argument controls the argument, and the side that takes and maintains the offensive controls the entire conflict. Time for freedom-lovers to get in the game. More

The American Left, which thoroughly dominates the mainstream media, no longer believes, if it ever did, in the concept of reasonable and respectable people disagreeing in good faith on core issues. More

That horrific mass murders are occurring more frequently and are escalating in brutality -- if that is possible -- is due to the fact, not that we are legal gun owners, but that we are legal drug users.
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An important political, if not constitutional, question has arisen over the meaning of the statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on October 15, 2012 that "I take responsibility" for the actions or non-action of the State Department over the events in Benghazi More

The United States in 2012 re-elected a man, Barack Obama, who is self-centered, unprincipled, and arrogant. From the perspective of the rest of the world, this is increasingly the image of the United States in 2013. More

If you've been following the news you're certainly aware of the mass starvation and the huge number of people dying due to exposure to the elements in Texas, Florida, and the other states lacking a state income tax. Or maybe not. More

Leadership in today's political environment will require an ability to blunt the progressive left's neverending effort to demonize conservatives, distort reality, and distract voters from engaging in honest debate. More